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Building new capabilities for the new prominence of private markets

Lightspeed Venture Partners

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Zoho Unveils New Services Within Catalyst by Zoho at Zoholics

SiliconHills

Zoho is not a typical software company. The Austin-based company started 28 years ago with one app and today has more than 55. On Wednesday, Zoho hosted thousands of customers at Zoholics, an annual customer conference held at the Austin Convention Center.

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The Future of Image Models Is Multimodal

Ben's Blog

In this episode of the AI + a16z podcast, Ideogram CEO Mohammad Norouzi joins a16z General Partner Jennifer Li to share his story of growing up in Iran, helping build influential text-to-image models at Google, and ultimately cofounding and running Ideogram. He also breaks down the differences between transformer models and diffusion models, as well as the transition from researcher to startup CEO.

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Zoho’s Founder Details the Company’s Expansion Plans in Texas

SiliconHills

Five years ago at Zoholics, Sridhar Vembu, founder and CEO of Zoho, announced the company’s move from California to Austin. It bought a 369-acre campus near the Austin airport. Zoho planned to build a campus there, but the COVID-19 pandemic hit, and plans changed.

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Building Healthy Innovation Ecosystems for Your Projects

Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic

Every startup and innovation project exists within an ecosystem that either helps or hurts that project. As innovation managers, we need to keep a pulse of that ecosystem and make sure we're helping those innovation projects we're managing every step of the way. In this webinar, Nick Noreña will walk through an Innovation Ecosystem Model that he and his team at Kromatic have developed to help investors, heads of product, teachers, and executives understand how they can best support innovation in

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ATC Honors Ten People at its Inaugural Austin Tech Hall of Fame

SiliconHills

Last week, the Austin Technology Council honored ten people from the Austin technology community at its first Austin Tech Hall of Fame. The event held at Calavista Software honored eight foundational and legacy inductees whose contributions have been pivotal in establishing Austin as a thriving tech hub.

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Dean Drako Acquires Cobalt AI

SiliconHills

Austin Entrepreneur Dean Drako announced last week that he had acquired Fremont, Calif-based Cobalt AI. Drako plans to serve as Cobalt AI’s chairman, while Ken Wolff, the company’s CEO, will continue leading it. Cobalt is a leading provider of AI alarm filtering, remote monitoring, and security robot solutions for the enterprise.

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